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In this video, learn how to change the case of selected text to a number of different options, including sentence case, uppercase, lowercase, captilize each word, and even toggle case, when you may have typed text without knowing the caps lock key was activated.

- [Instructor] Another adjustment you may need to maketo text in your Word document, is to the case.Case refers to the capital letters being usedeither in a title, a sentence, a group of words.There are a number of different cases to choose from,and when we simply type out a paragraph as we see herein our Tech Connect document we've been working with,0302 if you're catching up.Typically the beginning of a sentence is capitalized,you can see some proper names and titles being capitalized,but this is what we would call sentence case.

If you want it to have a title that's all uppercasethat is also an option here in Word.So if you don't type in things the way you want them,case wise, you can always go back and change themas we're going to do with this document.Let's start by going to this paragraph at the top,connecting you to the latest technologyand insider insights, we'll select itby going into the left margin next to itwhen you see the arrow, click once to select it.Now we're going to go up to the font group herewith the Home tab selected on the ribbon.

And you'll notice there is a dropdown arrownext to this change case button.Clicking this displays the various case options,there's Sentence Case right at the top.That's kinda what's being used alreadyin this particular sentence, or paragraph.If we want everything to be in lowercasewe can choose that, the reverse is uppercase.We might wanna capitalize each word, works for some titles.And then there's one called Toggle Case,go ahead and give that a click.This can happen on occasion where perhapsyou have your Caps Lock key turned on without knowing it,and you hit Shift in the first letter,actually creates a lower case letterand everything else is uppercase.

It's the reverse of what you really wanted,in that case you can always go back and select itlike we have here, go back up to the Change Case dropdownand Toggle Case, it'll toggle it back and forth.There, that's where we started.This might look good with each word capitalized,let's try that, we'll click the dropdown once againand go to Capitalize Each Word.And you can see what that looks like.It's better for some titles,in this case this is more of a sentenceso let's try something different.We'll go back up, click the dropdown for Change Case,this time try Uppercase.

In this case you can see every single character,it is capitalized, and that's going to workfor this particular subtitle.Just click in the background to deselect it.In fact, I think we should do the same thingfor the next paragraph which is a subtitle.We'll just go in there, click once in the left hand margin,back up to Change Case, and choose Uppercase.Click in the background to deselect.So for those particular headings, uppercase is going to workin some instances, you may have titlesthat would look good with each of the words capitalized.

In this case Tech Connect, you can seeis using that particular option from our dropdown,known as Capitalize Each Word.The point is if you've used the wrong casein the first place you can always go back and change it.

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9/24/2018

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